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...into two parts. The first part, which covers Stalin's dingy boyhood † and his youth as a Greek Orthodox seminarist and, later, a revolutionary political organizer and jailbird, suffers from lack of documentation. Trotsky scrupulously indicates the variegated reliability of his scanty sources, most of them boy hood friends and later enemies of Stalin, whose comments suggest William Wordsworth's definition of lyric poetry: strong emotion recollected in tranquillity (usually in jail or exile). He also makes devastating use of the official encomiums* written (usually in fear of jail or exile) after Stalin became powerful. The happy...
Great Britain's bumbling auto industry was so slow getting out of the garage that the House of Commons took a look under the hood. One angry member described what he saw last week as "a national scandal." After eight months of trying, the industry could still produce no more than 3,000 cars a week; it would be lucky to achieve even half its original 1946 goal...
...BERNARD C. COHEN Camp Hood...
...physicist and former director of the Los Alamos atomic bomb laboratory), returned from getting an honorary degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Looking around him, he exclaimed that he could not stand the dirty drabness any longer. Reaching into his suitcase, he pulled out his red and blue academic hood and hung it on a wall bracket-the only note of color in the dust and grime. After a day or two no one noticed...
...over 100 miles of ski runs were bulldozed into shape. At Placid, famed Skimeister Hannes Schneider designed for Wh iteface a facelifting calculated to make it a ski heaven for tyro or expert. It was the same story at other ski centers-at Mont Tremblant in the Laurentians, Mt. Hood in Oregon, Mt. Baker in Washington, Alta in Utah...